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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

The Deadliest Man Alive (GT Mini)

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Unknown, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7928 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In the 1970s, Count Dante claimed he held the secrets to the world's most deadly martial art. Signs of LA book (Amazon): https://amzn.to/3DJwIjR Signs of LA book (Everywhere else): https://linktr.ee/signsoflabook More Ghost Town: https://www.ghosttownpod.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/ghosttownpod Instagram: https;//www.instagram.com/ghosttownpod Sources: https://bit.ly/3rNZnwO Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Deadliest Man Alive. I'm Rebecca Lieb. I'm Jason Horton. And this is Ghost Town.

0:19.4

If you look through pages of a comic book in the 1970s, you probably came across and add for

0:24.8

The Deadliest Man Alive. The ad said he was the supreme grandmaster of the Black Dragon Fighting

0:30.9

Society. And he sold a book for a mere five dollars. You could learn dimmock aka the death touch.

0:39.4

This is the strange tale of martial arts and con master Count Dante. John Timothy Kean

0:47.5

was born in Beverly Chicago in 1939 to a very well off Irish American family. From a young age,

0:53.2

John had the world at his fingertips. But I doubt most people would be able to guess where his

0:58.2

life would go from there. He started boxing at a young age continuing through high school. Before

1:03.8

he joined the marine reserves and then the army where he got his first taste of martial arts

1:08.0

and John was hooked. He got his black belt in karate and then became a sensei himself before

1:13.9

he became the Midwest director of the USKA or the United States Karate Association. John had

1:19.8

bigger and better dreams though. So he left the association to help create the World Karate

1:24.6

Federation. But he didn't like that either. So he founded another organization called the World

1:30.4

Karate Federation not to be confused with the last two. It's like a thing to talk about. You're

1:35.6

just sorting words around and then what is it? It's all a burrito. Yeah. So once he was done creating

1:42.8

and leaving and creating organizations, John set his sights on reinventing martial arts.

1:47.6

Exactly what martial arts is all about. It's not a time-tested tradition perfected by many, many

1:53.1

people across generations. Just start a new. Yeah. And things, you know, evolve. Look at the UFC

2:01.2

and mixed martial arts. Like things evolve and people find ways to make the something old new or

2:07.6

takes a little of this and the little of that put it together. But I think he was like there's

2:11.7

going to be no evolution. It's going to just start right now. He had enough of all the ceremonies

2:16.5

and traditions that are integral to most martial arts. Yeah. Which I get a little bit. Sometimes

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